Home?

Since I arrived back here, I have felt more than ever that this is my home. This is a really exciting and confusing fact. Of course Camarillo still feels like home and being with family feels like home as well. But overseas? Well, that is my new reality. I have felt comfy here for a while, but home? Yes, now this feels like home.

It is a great thing to feel settled in the place that you live and to feel as though you have a community of people around you who love you and understand you and whom you love as well. It’s great to be able to communicate with people and not feel uncomfortable in the stores or walking the streets. It’s great to walk down the street and bump into several people that you know because this in fact is your home.

I have had this passage running through my mind lately from Psalm 68. You see, last year I had a difficult time adjusting back here and I realized that a large part of that was the feeling of loneliness. But this year as I returned, I felt the embrace of many people, the team that he has set me in at the English Center. The passage that came to mind is this: “HE sets the lonely in families.” from Psalm 68.

What a beautiful message just for me. What a beautiful picture of his love for me and how well he knows me. He knew that I needed that sense of belonging, of FAMILY. The photo above was taken just a couple days after I arrived back. These beautiful people welcomed me home with open arms of love. I am so grateful that this place that felt foreign three short years ago, feels like home today.